16th November 2005, 04:43 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Virginia
Posts: 520
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I am still trying to get more on this but Paul was very helpful and sent this
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Originally Posted by Paul Hansen
I don't speak "Sumatran" (or any other Indonesian language for that matter) but I'd imagine it's not to different from Javanese Pedang which is pronounced like "Pay-dahng".
In Dutch, the eu in Peudeueng is pronounced like the ö (o-umlaut) in German. There is no English equivalent AFAIK, the closest might be the u in dung. IIRC, in "Sumatran", it's a bit different, but somewhere in the general direction. So it's like Pödöng but different.
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